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- 10th - 12th
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Students read stories about refugees and discuss what it means to be a refugee. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students read articles to examine refugee life for Rwandans in Tanzania and Somalis in Ethiopia. They compare their own lives to the living conditions of the refugees and discuss basic human rights. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify the particular challenges that women refugees face. They examine their own gender bias and consider how the concepts of empowerment and conflict resolution can work to address these challenges. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
Students are to put themselves in the place of a person who is a refugee. They write an essay on the information they collect. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 12th
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Students participate in an online interactive forum on refugee issues. They conduct research, read refugee stories, submit book reviews, create artwork, and correspond with a refugee student in another part of the world. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students examine the reasons why Southeast Asian refugees left their home for the United States. They conduct interviews and research their suffering and history. They examine primary source documents to better understand their culture. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the affect of refugees have one their host country. They examine where refugees go and decide on things that might be affected by their influx such as medical care, moral issues, economic issues, and language barriers. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine language used in media to describe refugees, and identify how and why myths and misnomers are spread as facts. Students then identify where refugees go and countries that support them. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore war refugees and their life experiences. After reading about refugees, students compare and contrast the experiences of teen war refugees with their own experiences. They write simulate writing letters as if they were a refugee writing to an American "cousin." Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students explore the issue of "human rights" and discuss world events/situations in which human rights are in question. They determine their own needs and wants and simulate the experience of being a refugee having to leave their home. They discuss how this would affect a family and how it affects the world. Full Review »